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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 1, 2021 2:05:38 GMT
The woman who led my film classes is offering a virtual class on poetry in the Spring. Called I HEAR AMERICA SING THROUGH POETRY, it will cover Walt Whitman, Amanda Gorman, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, Bob Dylan T.S. Eliot and others. I will check to see if it will be virtual. If so, I will take it. I have wanted to get into poetry for a while so it sounds perfect for me.
Ann, Mary Jennings leads it. Did you know her? She is like a Rennaissance woman.
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Post by lani on Mar 1, 2021 17:44:01 GMT
I have wanted to get into poetry for a while so it sounds perfect for me. Yes, some poetry did speak to me when forced to read it in school, but I never pursued it in my regular reading life. I was doing a meditation series with Deepak Chopra and he mentioned picking up some poetry or inspirational readin instead when you are going to go for your normal distractions. Well, I still want my normal distractions, but I have many poetry collections that I inherited from various relatives down in my basement library. I started reading a poem or two before bedtime and really enjoyed it. I have taken a break from it recently but will probably go back to it at some point. I just finished the new Ann Cleeves book THE LONG CALL on loan as an ebook. It introduces a new detective, Matthew Venn and a new locale, Devon. It was very good. The Venn character is gay. I always find straight writers trying to do gay characters a bit awkward. The only writers I've found natural and convincing with these characters were gay themselves: Joseph Hansen and Mary Renault. Time to check in with the library and see if any of my "on holds" have become available.
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Post by woolworker on Mar 5, 2021 1:59:47 GMT
I'm bringing us up to the top! We're getting lost here.
We've had a lot going on so my reading time has been limited. I'm still reading the Arsonist by Sue Miller.
Has anyone looked at The Midnight Library? It sounds intriguing. Our library justgot it, but I need to wait until after I reread The Book of Two Ways for my next book group. Two of my favorite writers, Jumpha Lahiri and Ann Patchett have both had pieces in the New Yorker recently, both were excellent.
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 5, 2021 3:21:03 GMT
I'll have to look for those pieces in The New Yorker, Ann. Thanks.
My book club meeting on THAT WOMAN (Wallis Simpson) was a good one. I was not alone in hating the unscientific assumptions made by the author. Sometimes the best discussions arise from books I did not enjoy. I do not recommend the book, though.
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Post by conniej on Mar 5, 2021 17:46:19 GMT
I am reading 20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. A WOMENS MURDER CLUB
Lindsay Boxer is the first to realize the victims have been chosen for a specific reason and 3 bodies and 3 bullets. Her friend reporter Cindy is upset that she didn't break the story first. Assistant DA Yuki had her problem trying to deal with a case she really does not to do. Medical Examiner Clare has her own private problem that she has only told Lindsay about. Too much to deal with.
I like this series after a really tough book to read. Which was THIRTEENTH TALE. I was bogged down with a lot of descriptions that just tired me out. I wanted her to get to the story, Please. The last part of the story was really good and was glad I stuck with it. But I'm not a real fan. I read every word and took me forever.
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Post by lani on Mar 5, 2021 17:50:29 GMT
I got two Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope ebooks from the library. One was available and the other just got off hold. I'm trying to read them in order, but I think the "off hold" one may be out of order. I'm getting more fond of Vera. She definitely takes some getting used to.
Also there are a few more SHETLAND books that I haven't read. I'm going to go for them next after I finish these two Vera ones.
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Post by woolworker on Mar 5, 2021 21:21:35 GMT
Connie: Thanks for making it through the Thirteenth Tale! You have confirmed that I was right to give it up. You are a better reader than I! I can't make myself get through a book that doesn't grab me, unless I have to read it for book group or something else, I give up.
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